I reviewed these originally with the sneak peek from last week. I’m re-posting what I said about both in this post, but the photos are of the products in the limited edition packaging.

Hipness Blush is a soft pink with a hint of coral with a smooth finish–very satiny, not shimmery. It was originally released with the Fafi and MAC collaboration. Hipness is pinker–less orange–and more pigmented than Instant Chic from Pret-a-Papier. Hipness is much pinker and lighter than Marine-Life high-light powder.

Refined Golden Bronzer is a dirty brown with a very fine golden shimmer strewn through the powder that’s barely noticeable when used. I don’t find it turns orange-y at all, so I like it for a bronzing option. It’s dark enough to work on light to medium dark complexions, but it’s not so dark that it will look drastic on lighter skin tones. This is a permanent product, but I have it because it was released with Style Warriors. (Which also released Solar Riche as the second bronzer in that collection, whereas To the Beach features Golden, also a permanent bronzing shade.)

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I *think* based on the close up of Hipness, Peachykeen has more shimmer. Also, Peachykeen is described as “baby peach”, which it really is, but I see a lot of pink in Hipness which makes the two very different from each other.

Thank you so much for the swatches
I’m loving hipness and will definitely get it. I cannot get any MAC limited edition stuff where I live and have to order it overseas. Your accurate swatches help me to decide what I should get..

I think I’ll be getting a powder bronzer from this collection, but I’ll pass on “Hipness.” I have Benefit “Coralista,” so I think I’m all set for the shimmery coral blushes. I’m curious about the other, more bronzy blush, though…

Yaiii I get to spend my money on different “To The Beach” stuff. I already own both of these and I must say when Hipness came out with the Fafi collection I was in LOVE! Such a beautiful color and works well against my NW15-20 skin Thanks for the swatches girl!

From the pictures I’m not seeing much shimmer in the Hipness blush but I noticed you didnt mention that it was a matte blush. I have quite large pores on my cheeks and prefer a less shimmery blush; would you say this would accentuate pores or settle into them….or is it matte enough it’d work? Thanks so much!

thanks for posting the new collection pics/swatches that you have…i am off to mac right now to go check out the stuff, so it’s very helpful.

also someone mentioned your new advert links — i think it would be good if they act like your other ‘pink’ links where they don’t get underlined until you hover over the words…a few times i thought you were putting emphasis on those words…which didn’t really make sense! but you probably have it all sorted already

Thank you again for doing the swatches! I bought mine from Bloomingdale’s last night and now I’m really excited about it. I’ve been splurging A LOT on MAC blushes lately, but I think Hipness definitely has a place in my collection. Do you think that you can do a swatch comparison of Coralista and Hipness? I’m sure you’re crazy busy, so maybe I’ll buy Coralista too and see what happens.

i have just started to become a mac blush addict! I’m starting my mac blush collection and try to get my hands on every limited edition stuff, i’m so crazy about cute packaging!!!!!
thanks for your pics, hope the new collection will be released very soon in asia!!!!!